[hypermail] "configure" problem

Hello,

I am responding to your README request:

• Hypermail now uses "configure" to generate the Makefiles. In the top level directory, type "configure" to create the Makefiles. If it does not work on your system, please let me know.
  1. "./configure" couldn't find gdbm.h
  2. build of GDBM tried to create "lib".0.0.2 finally did "make -n" and ran cmds on cmdline
  3. still, the "hypermail" build bombed:
     • Building static library: libpcre

            rm -f libpcre.a
            ar cq libpcre.a maketables.o get.o study.o pcre.o
            ranlib libpcre.a
            gcc  -c -g -O2  -I/include -Ipcre  base64.c
            gcc  -c -g -O2  -I/include -Ipcre  date.c
            gcc  -c -g -O2  -I/include -Ipcre  domains.c
            gcc  -c -g -O2  -I/include -Ipcre  file.c
            gcc  -c -g -O2  -I/include -Ipcre  hypermail.c
            gcc  -c -g -O2  -I/include -Ipcre  lang.c
            gcc  -c -g -O2  -I/include -Ipcre  lock.c
            gcc  -c -g -O2  -I/include -Ipcre  mem.c
            gcc  -c -g -O2  -I/include -Ipcre  parse.c
            parse.c:33: gdbm.h: No such file or directory
            gmake[1]: *** [parse.o] Error 1
            gmake: *** [hypermail] Error 2

This may be a local problem, because /usr/local is NFS-mounted and we NFS-clients cannot write into that directory. So I changed the Makefile to use "/opt/local" -- it worked once, but not when building libpcre.

The messiest problem was #2 -- the libtool script did very strange things.

Hope this feedback is useful to you. Thanks for the most excellent email-discussion-list tool.

--Bill Rieken (408) 517-5459 (o) (408) 395-8682 (h)   19476 Sherrys Way
  Los Gatos, CA 95033 wdr_at_javamix.eng.sun.com Received on Thu 21 Jun 2001 03:56:57 PM GMT